Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, formerly of The Word magazine (in print), but forever associated with Smash Hits in the 1980s had a little chat about Toyah (as well as Morrissey) in their latest The Word podcast…
Fond memories of lost ‘80s London, Morrissey v Marr and the film they should make about Toyah
Toyah guested on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Afternoon Show today, talking Slave To The Rhythm and more. Toyah’s interview is now available as a downloadable podcast.
Musician, artist and TV presenter Toyah Willcox chats about returning to music with the release of her brand new single.
• Listen to Toyah’s interview at BBC Sounds.
Interview: Toyah Willcox on her Anthem 40th Anniversary tour
In episode #95 of The XS Noize Podcast, Mark Millar catches up with Toyah Willcox. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Toyah Willcox has had eight top 40 singles, released over 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and ten feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows.
In this interview, Toyah talks about supporting Billy Idol on his UK Arena tour, her Anthem 40th Anniversary tour, Posh Pop, Sunday lunch videos with her husband Robert Fripp, acting and lots more.
• Continue reading at XS Noize.
Ep 15: Rebelling with Toyah Willcox
Season 1, Episode 15: This week we’re joined by teenage rebel, Toyah Willcox. The ever-regenerating actress and musician has topped YouTube charts for her Sunday Lunch series with husband Robert, and Kaye & Karen talk to Toyah about her upbringing, finding humour in everything she does, and much more.
You can join Kaye and Karen at the Edinburgh Fringe on 23rd & 24th August at the Gilded Balloon, with lots of special guests. Get your tickets here.
• Listen to Toyah’s interview, on How To be 60 – With Kaye Adams podcast, here.
Toyah Willcox on sex In later life, hysterectomies and checking your body
Season 1, Episode. 3: Singer, actor and YouTube sensation Toyah Willcox doesn’t just want to keep living, she wants to feel as full of life as she can for as long as possible.
In this episode, Toyah speaks openly about keeping intimacy alive in later life, and how communication and understanding can help women flourish when it comes to sex, relationships and living life to its full potential.
• Listen to Toyah’s interview, on the Women’s Health – Breaking The Taboos podcast, here.
Toyah Willcox | On Record | In Conversation
Season 1, Episode 7
Broadcaster Satnam Rana and Journalist Adrian Goldberg present twenty-two conversations with Birmingham musicians, promoters, managers, venue owners and entrepreneurs who have all contributed to local, national, and international music culture. Join us and our special guests for conversations about their lives in music, their connections to the city, and how Birmingham has inspired or influenced them, personally and musically.
Selected dates also feature free live performances from the artists appearing On Record. The first of its kind, On Record is a multi-artist, multi-genre concept album forming a sonic love letter to the city of Birmingham. Produced as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival, the eleven-track album will be available on a limited vinyl release and across all streaming platforms.
From her early days as a Birmingham punk to the recent internet phenomenon of Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch, Toyah Willcox has become an award-winning rock legend as well as a much-loved actress, and music composer. In this episode Satnam Rana digs deep into Toyah’s enduring career, what influences and drives her. And what a career!
Toyah has amassed thirteen top 40 singles, recorded twenty-five albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays, acted in over twenty feature films, including Derek Jarman’s seminal punk epic, Jubilee, and presented hundreds of TV programmes in her own charismatic, outspoken, and impossible to categorise way. She released Posh Pop, her first solo studio album since 2008, in August 2021.
Listen to Toyah Willcox: On Record | In Conversation.
Toyah is the latest guest on the My Time Capsule podcast.
Ep. 158 – Toyah Willcox
Toyah Willcox or “Toyah” is a musician, actor, and presenter. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Toyah has had 8 top 40 singles, released over 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and 10 feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows.
Toyah Willcox is guest number 158 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she’d like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again.
• Listen at My Time Capsule.
The Dyspraxic Help 4U Podcast had the honour of interviewing Toyah to celebrate Dyspraxia Awareness Week 2021.
The legendary entertainer has Dyspraxia and took the time to speak with us in the hope of inspiring others to follow in her footsteps.
Dyspraxic Help 4U is delighted to have teamed up with Dyspraxic Alliance and Dyspraxia Magazine for Dyspraxia Awareness Week 2021.
For album and tour details please visit www.toyahwillcox.com – Special thanks to Mike Nelson.
• Click below to listen at You Tube. The podcast can also be downloaded at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts. Spotify and Anchor FM.
Toyah on being a woman in punk in the 1980s, her new album, and the Sunday Lunch sensation
This is Unscripted – a podcast brought to you by ITV News Arts Editor Nina Nannar. In each episode, Nina speaks to a leading name from the world of arts and entertainment.
Her guests talk about their life and work, plus Nina asks them where they see themselves in five years.
On Unscripted this week, Nina is joined by eighties icon Toyah.
Toyah talks life in the music industry as a woman in punk in the 1980s – and challenging the business now 40 years later.
She chats to Nina about her new album Posh Pop.
And, of course, the pair chat about Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lockdown Lunch – the internet sensation that sprung up in lockdown imagined by the singer and her husband, guitarist Robert Fripp.
• Continue reading/Listen to the interview at ITV News.
Toyah guests today on Barbara Dickson’s Answer Me Ten podcast.
Barbara said of meeting Toyah: “What a delight to chat with her. Bx”
A series of new weekly podcasts, ‘Answer Me Ten’, Join legendary singer Barbara Dickson as she poses ten questions to different women in the world of music. Visit Barbara at www.barbaradickson.net
• Listen to Toyah’s Answer Me Ten podcast chat with Barbara Dickson here or at You Tube.
The Evelyn Glennie Podcast, on which Toyah recently guested, is now available at The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive as a text interview.
A great interview with Toyah, a great podcast, and now a great transcript.
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
S1E38: Toyah Willcox
This week, Guy and Gary chat to a creative tour de force. Musician, actress, TV presenter and now lockdown YouTube sensation, Toyah Willcox.
What a career! 20 albums, over 40 stage plays, at least 10 films including the iconic mod classic ‘Quadrophenia’.
The interview with Toyah was great fun and we can’t wait to share it with you.
• Listen to the Rockonteurs podcast here.
Episode 21 – Toyah Willcox
Season 4, Ep. 21
I have always been a huge fan of Toyah’s so to have the chance to chat to her about everything that keeps her creative was incredible for me!
Toyah shared some of the secrets of her boundless energy, her musical inspirations and how to survive a lockdown with a husband of 35 years without throwing the kettle at him! So let’s get listening!
In loving memory of Isobel Glennie.
• Listen to The Evelyn Glennie Podcast here.
Welcome to episode nine of our Patreon exclusive podcast documentary series, An Uncanny Hour hosted by Robin Ince.
In this episode we look at the life and influence of artist, activist and director Derek Jarman and more specifically his 1978 cult film, Jubilee. Was the film a punk film, a film about punk, or neither? How does it work in tandem with Jarman’s activism as a leading campaigner against Clause 28 and the homophobia of the time and how is it still relevant today?
Robin Ince talks about his affection for Jarman’s work and talks to:
Musician, actor and one of the stars of Jubilee, Toyah Willcox | Creator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Jubilee performer, Richard O’Brien | Writer, journalist and friend of Derek Jarman, Jon Savage | Performance artist, musician, writer and creator of some of Derek Jarman’s soundtracks, Cosey Fanni Tutti | Musician, writer and front man for The Membranes, John Robb | Comedian, writer and former punk, Charlie Higson
• Continue reading/Watch the podcast at The Cosmic Shambles Network.
Befriending Toyah Willcox
The Mrs Barbara Nice & Friends Podcast
SUMMARY
Ahead of her remastered Album Launch “Sheep Farming in Barnet”, Toyah Willcox stops by to chat to Barbara about the importance of the audience, the differing priorities of a band and befriending people on stage.
SHOW NOTES
Mrs Barbara Nice chats to Toyah Willcox about the re-release of her album “Sheep Farming in Barnet” on Cherry Red Records
They become fast, firm friends as they discuss the coincidence in their locations, interacting with individual audience members amid big gigs. the importance of the audience to a performer and somehow, wild swimming in the Avon
• Continue reading/Listen to the interview here.
Ramblings: Joyful Highlights Part 4 – Singers & Writers is now available to download, from the BBC website or as an Apple Podcast.
Clare Balding recalls her favourite walks with a colourful variety of writers and singers including Bill Bryson, Toyah Willcox, folk duo Ninebarrow, and the choral group Werca’s Folk.
Clare has been walking on air since 1999, and for this lockdown series of highlights has been digging into the archives to retrieve some of her most memorable moments: Today she gets dressed with Bill Bryson, takes a lift across a small puddle with Toyah, discovers that Dorothy Wordsworth avoided marriage so she could continue walking, and hears from author Emma Mitchell about exactly why our mood is lifted when we spend time in nature.
We’re back!
For this first episode in the new season, Chris talks with showbiz legend Toyah Willcox about her remarkable stage career.
Please feel free to respond: podcast@chrisgoodeonline.com or you can comment and rate us at iTunes. Thanks for listening & we’ll be back next Wednesday.
• Continue reading/Listen to the podcast here.
Toyah’s interview from yesterday’s Steve Wright In The Afternoon show on ‘BBC Radio 2’ is also now available for the next week as a podcast. It’s included in the latest “Steve Wright’s Big Guests”, which also includes Charlie Watts and Marcus Brigstoke.
Steve Wright’s Big Guests: 20 Mar 2013: Daily highlights from Steve Wright’s afternoon show on BBC Radio 2. Featuring chat with top showbiz guests. Steve and the team chat to The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts about his latest live gigs. Plus Marcus Brigstocke tells Steve about his comedy tour and Toyah Willcox tells all about her new touring show.
• Visit the BBC Podcasts & Downloads page.
Toyah’s excellent episode of BBC Radio 4’s Ramblings, which aired a couple of times over the last few days, is available for the next four weeks as a BBC podcast.
Ramblings with Clare Balding: Toyah Willcox at Croome Landscape Park
Thu, 28 Feb 13: Duration: 25 mins
Actress and singer, Toyah Willcox, takes Clare Balding on a windy walk around Croome Landscape Park in Worcestershire.
• Visit the BBC Podcasts & Downloads page and the Ramblings hompage.
